It was one of our local authority’s more bizarre decisions to demolish the Avon Street coach park before making any alternative arrangements, apart from considering the Odd Down park and ride facility as a possible re-location site to be built sometime in the future!

The anxieties reported in the Chronicle last week of Cllr Tim Bull, arising from tourist coaches being parked on the Lower Bristol Road, were probably expressed by him when the decision was taken to redirect coaches to the Weston Island bus depot which is within his electoral ward.

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The consequences of this decision are that coaches arriving from the east of Bath have four miles added to their journeys, while those coming from the west have to pass through Cllr Ball’s ward (and past my home) four times! It is not surprising that Weston Island is ignored by visiting coach drivers.

They have to pay a fee to park there, there are few facilities to occupy them while they wait to start their return journey, or they have to walk to Twerton High Street to take the First bus back into town, or else they must just sit in their coaches and dream of other cities which make them (and their passengers) more welcome.